Comments on: Perch: An Ultra-Lightweight CMS

By: Prut

Prut — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:17:22 +0000

You’re probably not working as a web developer with “dumb” clients. Joomla or Drupal are just big no-goes for most clients.

You create the website for them, they use the “CMS” to update or change a few things (so they’re not annoying you with trivial work) and if they require bigger changes, they come back to you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:44:53 +0000

I would advise everyone to steer clear of Perch unless they want to get involved in loads of coding.

It is not a true CMS (like Joomla for instance), but a way of dynamically managing static content on a pre-existing site … so, pretty pointless for many people, and not as “simple” as they describe it.

Pretty useless from my point of view, but probably good if you want to develop a site from scratch that can be dynamically updated later. It doesn’t really make light work of anything.(

There are far better options out there. Oh, and customer support is terrible – I certainly won’t recommend them to anyone.

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Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:01:55 +0000

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By: outstan

outstan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:18:15 +0000

Funny question since one cannot actually "try" it. I mean do i get a refund if I don't like it?

By: steve

steve — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:15:21 +0000

If you like perch, I have found a free alternative. Its called PulseCMS.

pulsecms.com

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:21:43 +0000

I'll be using Perch for some of my clients who have small sites and want to edit limited content.

Things I like: I love the fact that there is no WYSIWYG interface, so many clients make a hash of their site by using horrible typography or colour clashes. Love the fact you host it on your own server and can easily be rebranded. Also very happy with the price.

How the heck can someone grumble at £35!? If you can't implement this into your clients site and make a mark-up on the price, you're in the wrong game.

By: davey

davey — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:40:16 +0000

Why would anyone pay for this when there are so many open source alternatives? I would consider it for a one time fee, but purchasing a new license for every site? No thanks.

By: rachelandrew

rachelandrew — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:05:26 +0000

@abberdab (and others asking) we've just put up the ability to try out Perch as an online demo. If you sign up you'll get a unique instance of Perch created set up with a few templates already selected and a few new regions that you can choose any template for. I hope this helps you to see how Perch works. Perch demo

By: abberdab

abberdab — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:46:01 +0000

What Tony M sez.

Perch sounds awesome to me precisely *because* it doesn’t rely on a WYSIWYG editor, or enable changes to the page structure of a site, and I can host it myself.

I’m a big fan of Concrete 5 and WordPress. I have created many sites with both and would recommend both. But, in some situations they are overkill.

Sometimes you have a small, otherwise static, site. The client only needs to keep one or two areas of content up to date. Implementing a full-blown CMS is not only overkill but also opens up the can-of-worms that many a designer/developer has experienced when they give the client more control than they want/need/are able to handle. Perch would seem to fill this CMS need, perfectly.

I would also, however, really love a demo so I can see if this is true or not!

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:56:32 +0000

Check out Concrete5. Same concept. Used to be commercial but now it is free. Been around and tested – solid simple CMS. WYSIWYG included. Did I mention it’s free?

concrete5.org